TOP 50 70’s English Prog

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   I like Henry Cow, the music is sometimes hard to get into, but once
you've gone past the initial feeling of  dislocation of harmonies,
you'll get to that apreciation of the underlying harmonies and 
textures, that aren't immediatly  perceived.

Anyway I like it

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tuxon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 21 2004 Location: plugged-in Status: Offline Points: 5502	Posted: May 10 2005 at 20:24
	I like Henry Cow, the music is sometimes hard to get into, but once you've gone past the initial feeling of dislocation of harmonies, you'll get to that apreciation of the underlying harmonies and textures, that aren't immediatly perceived. Anyway I like it
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lpd42 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: May 09 2005 Status: Offline Points: 60	Posted: May 11 2005 at 11:35
	great list. I personally would replace Henry Cow with anything by the Art Bears. Which brings up an interesting question : If Henry Cow are prog, and art bears (a henry cow\slapp happy conglomerate) are prog, doesn't that make Yoko Ono (Plastic ono band\Fly era) prog? She charted similar territory as the art bears, in terms of vocalisation. Some tracks like "Mindtrain" and most of the plastic ono band album have a krautrock vibe. Anyway, I've only heard Unrest by HC, but I thought it was a pretty good album. Anything with mike oldfield can't be THAT bad. (Tubular bells and Five miles out are his best lps IMHO.) "Breakfast in America" is one of my guilty pleasures. I'm suprised it was the biggest selling album of '79 (the year I was born) considering how strange it is for a "pop" album.
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Certif1ed Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559	Posted: May 13 2005 at 07:00
	Camel's Mirage and debut should be there, IMO - especially Mirage. ELO's Eldorado, while progressive, is NOT a prog rock album! Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" only just makes it to the 1970s - and isn't really a prog album. I'm puzzled as to why you would choose that over the more obviously prog "Crime of the Century" or "Even in the Quietest Moments". I would also replace "The Wall" with "Meddle" and "Still Life" with "Godbluff" or "Pawn Hearts". I'd also squeeze in Hammill's "Silent Corner, Empty Stage", "Fools Mate" or "In Camera" - all excellent albums. Edited by Certif1ed

arcer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: September 01 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1239	Posted: May 13 2005 at 12:31
	I'd go along with Cert on the Supertramp thing. I think if you're putting in Breakfast in America then you have to add Crime of the Century - they are the two most 'complete' albums they made and, for me, are as creatively rich and on fire as each other, Crisis and Quietest don't quite hit the same level of sustained quality.

Bellringer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 19 2004 Location: Hull, UK Status: Offline Points: 99	Posted: May 18 2005 at 20:05
	Now, now, now, Nets is entitled to like or dislike anything in prog. After all, I like Ron Geesin and there are plenty who would probably call me weird. All prog is definately not for all tastes. Each to his own.
	Psalm 69:6

philippe Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 14 2004 Location: noosphere Status: Offline Points: 3597	Posted: May 19 2005 at 12:16
	also don't forget the legendary Atomic Rooster with their crazy but impressive keyboardist Vincent Crane Live and raw is an absolute must Edited by philippe


Dan Yaron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: May 19 2005 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 95	Posted: May 20 2005 at 07:22
	Regarding Henry Cow's music. Actually, I don't like it either, but because it's not avant garde enough since I had listened to avant garde jazz like the late stuff by coltrane, the stuff from the sixties to now by cecil taylor, and almost everything by albert ayler and so on. I still love this noisey avatgarde jazz that is hated by 98% of the people that I know. Therefore, when it comes to Progressive Rock I prefer the symphonic stuff =) They have nothing to do with my other likings =)

Sir Realist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 24 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 38	Posted: May 24 2005 at 23:07
	One problem with assessing the '70s is that a lot of excellent live material was released much later. Like the BBC and Peel Sessions stuff. Does that count? Edited by Sir Realist
	I can have double standards, and you can't